Monday, November 1, 2010

The Pain Event

A fighter who let down his guardby too many bouts has been scarredEach blow, ev'ry traceis there in his faceIt's lean and it's haunted and hard

Robert Ryan in The Set-Up (Robert Wise, 1947). Welcome to November Noir at Limerwrecks. First up is a tribute to film noir icon Robert Ryan. Ryan had been a boxer before becoming an actor, and had a tough, lived-in face made for film noir. Image source: Only the Cinema.

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